The Worst Silent Hill Game Ever Made | Silent Hill: Downpour

I was going to write this into the intro of my Homecoming video, but it felt better here: I wanna give a quick disclaimer to try and avoid some mistakes in the future, that I admittedly made in this video. First off, I wanna be clear that everything I say in this video, along with all of my past and future projects, is just my opinion. You are fully encouraged and expected to have a different opinion than me, and that's totally okay, I love having discussions with you guys in the comments and getting to understand your views. The purpose of my videos is to entertain. I'm not here to to give a complete, detailed tear down of the elements that make up this game, or start a war in the comments section. All I want is to make your day a little better when you click on any of my videos, whether it be from the dumb jokes I make throughout the game, or having a great discussion in the comments, that is my only goal. Nothing I will say, or have said, in ANY video is fueled by the motivation to gain more attention, or clicks. I am simply just stating my opinion on topics I find interesting, even if my opinion is not the most popular. Honestly, I am not used to having such strong feedback, positive or negative, on anything I've ever created. I've been told to ignore negative comments by close friends, but that didn't feel right to me. Hopefully, this helps a few of you understand where I'm coming from. None of my videos are intended to induce anger, and I'm very sorry to the people that were affected this way. I've read multiple times that the title of this video is one of the biggest factors that have caused many of you to be upset. Despite that, I stuck to my opinion, and never changed the title. I want to be clear, again, that the title of this video did NOT come from an attempt to gain more views. When uploading this video, I thought nothing of it, nothing more than proclaiming what I thought was the general consensus, based on the review scores of Downpour, and, of course, my own opinion. Regardless, this was never intended to make anyone upset, and I am very sorry to those of you who felt misled by it.

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i think a large portion of murphy’s mental anguish is that he was a normal person who killed out of revenge. i think any normal person would feel the same way after taking a life for the first time, regardless of the reasons.

one more thing I rarely hear people talk about is the voice actor for Murphy. Maybe it's just me, but I absolutely loved his performance. He doesn't really sound like a "video game protagonist", he sounds like a dude absolutely stressed tf out and just wants to get out of there. Reminds me a lot of Harry from SH one. Also, his screams of pain legit sound like he's DYING and I always feel bad for the guy lol

Down pour can’t be the worst when both book of memories and homecoming exist

Tbh, the best thing about this game is the secret ending where everyone enjoys a big cake 🎉

silent hill ascension, book of memories, and the short message would like to have a word.

I had a whole multi-paragraph essay typed out about the actual irrelevancy of the titular "downpour" in-game but deleted it all because I only just now, years later, realized that the symbolism of a constant downpour that causes ambient fog and worsens when it triggers fights is symbolic of the showers Murphy had to turn on to hide his actions. I cannot believe it took me this long. And it definitely makes more sense than just following a loose association with water because Murphy saw his son's body be pulled out of a lake. Alex Sheperd has just as much trauma around lakes if that's what we're talking about, and I think that only gets utilized in his game roughly three times? That embarrassment aside, the downpour was a mechanic that I really wanted to love but that felt like an annoying progress-stopper at worst when I was playing. The rain stayed light enough that I constantly wondered if it was actually at the most intense it could be, because I don't think they figured out how to convey the oppressiveness of an actual downpour in the environmental design without ruining player experience or game performance. I really like alternate takes on Silent Hill's presentation-- I am forever a Shattered Memories ice world defender -- but the storms were, like nearly everything in this game, disappointing. I'm not at all surprised you didn't talk more about it. All that being said, you've got a new sub. This was really well edited, your audio quality and cadence were good, you had a good balance of summary and opinion in a way that felt natural and formed a cohesive stream of thought. This was a good video.

While I agree with a lot of your points, I find homecoming to be much, much worse.

Silent Hill Downpour is one of my favorite games, despite it truly being a "bad Silent Hill game". I find it charming, and I've always been captivated by Murphy's story. I'm glad you were able to find some good in it as well.

Downpour had great atmosphere, terrible enemy designs and a lukewarm story. So...overalll....good game. Homecoming had the complete opposite problem. Awesome enemy design, shitty atmosphere and a confusing story that played it safe and predictable. Downpour imo is pretty good, I loved the side quests you could do and levels.

Compared to a lot of the western Silent Hills, I actually think Downpour was really good. It’s really unfortunate that the enemy designs were so lack luster and some of the stages were just kind of eh, ergo the prison level and a lot of the segments where you have to traverse the streets of the town. I loved, however, the optional content and side quests and completed every single one voluntarily. I think if it was given the proper time and support it needed to cook then it woulda been something truly special

"Where's everybody going? Bingo?" Lol In the canon ending, when Murphy turns, smiles and says to Cunningham, "there's somewhere I have to be." reminds me of Leon in the canon RE2 ending, smiling saying,"Hey, it's up to us to take out Umbrella!"

Not sure what you mean. Homecoming makes Downpour look like an untouchable masterpiece.

I really like the idea of an immortal/ghost mailman, but I'm not sure how to fit that into the overall lore of the games. I've been a part of a lot of online discussion groups over the years, and one of the more common "things to discuss" is trying to figure out how to tie all the games together, no matter how outlandish the explanation. But outside of all of that, I feel that Silent Hill as a story works best the more alone the protagonist is, and having a ghostly mailman subtly guiding the protag kinda-sorta takes away from that "vibe" but I'm sure there's ways to make it work. Downpour, overall, is very strange to me, because even after all these years, I'm still not sure where I stand with it, unless we're going with the "Each Silent Hill game is the Dying Dream of the protagonist" angle. Anyway, great video! Please make more!

I recently watched another video essay that claimed Downpour's story would have been much more compelling if they changed Napier. More accurately, changed how he killed Charlie. Basically remove intent (like a car accident) so Murphy getting revenge on Napier was more on the morally gray side. That way Murphy's struggle would be a lot more guilt on top of his grief.

Homecoming is way worse than Downpour😂

I'm commenting because you have so low views. You made this video and I listened to the whole thing and immediately subscribed. I checked your channel and it seems like this is the first of its kind you have made. You did a very good job and I would listen to more long form content if you made it.

Come on,... we got The Short Message after all

Nah is Homecoming, Downpour at least tried to not copy all the other entries